Description

AESC2014 is an intensely inspired two-day experience for thought leaders in executive search and talent acquisition management. If you care about differentiation, transformation and innovation in executive search and talent acquisition, this is the event created just for you.

What should you expect from AESC2014?

AESC2014 will bring together the leading minds in executive search and talent acquisition management for two educational days filled with enlightenment that will inspire you to...

Think deeper. Search smarter.

AESC2014 delegates are...

Members of the worldwide Association of Executive Search Consultants

Retained Executive Search Professionals

Senior Management and HR Leaders

AESC2014 delegates are looking for both inspiration and instruction. Delegates will leave inspired but also equipped with actionable ideas to take back to the office when the event is over. They'll be invigorated by innovative techniques they can use to boost their business to a new level.

Organizations

Conference Speakers

Geoff Colvin
Senior Editor-at-Large, Fortune Magazine

Geoff Colvin is an award-winning thinker, author, broadcaster, and speaker on today’s most significant trends in business. As FORTUNE’s Senior Editor-at-Large, he has become one of America’s sharpest and most respected commentators on leadership, globalization, wealth creation, the infotech revolution, and related issues.

James P Gorman
CEO, Morgan Stanley
Mr. Gorman is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley. Mr. Gorman served from 2007 to 2009 as Co-President, with responsibility for the Firm’s Wealth Management (Wealth Management), Investment Management and operations and technology functions. Mr. Gorman also served as co-head of corporate strategy from 2007 to 2009.
Edie Weiner
President, Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc.
Edie Weiner is president of Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc., a leading futurist consulting group. Formed in 1977, WEB has served over 400 clients in identifying opportunities in strategic thinking, product development, marketing, investment, human resources, and change management. WEB clients have ranged from national governments to Fortune 500 companies.
Ravin Jesuthasan
Managing Director and Global Practice Leader, Tower Watson
Relevant Experience/Specialization: Ravin Jesuthasan has extensive experience in the design and implementation of workforce and people systems that align with an organization’s strategic drivers and the creation of shareholder value. He has also led numerous large-scale, global restructuring and transformation engagements for his clients.
James Edsberg
Senior Partner, Gulland Padfield
James Edsberg joined Gulland Padfield as Senior Partner in 2012. He works with the management of some of the world’s leading financial institutions and professional and business services firms to help them identify and exploit domestic and global growth opportunities.
Mr. Rolfe I. Kopelan
Managing Partner, Capstone Partnership
With over 40 years of search experience, Mr. Kopelan leads our Investment Banking and General Management practices. His searches are conducted in a traditional, rigorous fashion – investing the effort and time to thoroughly understand a client’s strategy, growth objectives, culture, and the backgrounds and personalities of a firm’s principals.
Mr. Thomas T. Daniels, B.A., M.B.A.
Senior Director & Partner, Spencer Stuart
Tom Daniels is based in New York and is a member of Spencer Stuart’s Financial Officer, Financial Services, North American Board & CEO and Private Equity practices. He has led senior-level assignments for a broad range of clients, including large multinationals, midcap, private equity and alternative asset management firms.
Mr. Jose J. Ruiz
Chief Executive Officer, Alder Koten
Jose Ruiz serves as Alder Koten’s Chief Executive Officer providing vision, strategic direction and the roadmap for the firm’s future. He is also involved in executive search work focused on board members, CEOs and senior-level executives; and consulting engagements related to leadership and organizational effectiveness helping clients create thriving culture.
Mr. Peter Felix
President, AESC
Peter M. Felix has been President of the worldwide Association of Executive Search Consultants, based in New York, since 1998. Mr. Felix is a former executive search consultant, who has had extensive experience in association management, in management consulting and in industrial management.

Additional Information

Monday, March 10, 2014

10:00am - 11:00am

Registration and Sponsor Exhibits

11:00am - 11:15am

Welcome and Introductory Remarks

, Managing Partner, Capstone Partnership

11:15am - 12:00pm

Annual General Meeting and State of the Industry Report

, Senior Director & Partner, Spencer Stuart

, President, AESC

12:00pm - 1:45pm

Luncheon with Keynote Speaker: Geoff Colvin- Talent is Overrated

is an award-winning thinker, author, broadcaster, and speaker on today's most significant trends in business. As FORTUNE’s Senior Editor-at-Large, he has become one of America's sharpest and most respected commentators on leadership, globalization, wealth creation, the infotech revolution, and related issues. As anchor of Wall Street Week with FORTUNE on PBS, he spoke each week to the largest audience reached by any business television program in America.

Geoff’s groundbreaking bestseller received the Harold A. Longman Award for "Best Business Book of the Year" and has been translated into a dozen languages. Geoff’s book was named the best management book of the year by Strategy and Business magazine.

As revealed in , a research study conducted jointly by Towers Watson and Oxford Economics, the future of the global workforce will look very different from what it looks like today. Friction points in supply and demand and shifting skills sets will call for a radical rethink of how companies manage work and talent. Ravin Jesuthasan will set the scene and share five potential implications for global organizations.

3:30pm - 3:45pm

Refreshment Break

3:45pm - 4:45pm

General Session

4:45pm - 5:30pm

Leadership in the Future
, President, Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc.

We are entering a new economy and a wholly new age. With technology sweeping us along, our relationship to everything around us is changing. Our engagements -- from employment to politics to the marketplace -- are being disintermediated by strange and new players. Thousands of books and articles continue to be written about leadership, but are their authors looking in the wrong directions? As the world around us continues to change profoundly, what will leadership mean? What will it become? And why will it matter?

Client Centricity. This year's program will include an interactive session with , Partner of the Professional Services consulting firm, Gulland Padfield, who will share his practical insights from 12 years working with some of the world's leading professional service firms.